"I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, because the people of this country don’t want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. So I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it." -- Trump, 12/11/18

Words of Advice:

"Never Feel Sorry For Anyone Who Owns an Airplane."-- Tina Marie

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

"Flying the Airplane is More Important than Radioing Your Plight to a Person on the GroundWho is Incapable of Understanding or Doing Anything About It." -- Unknown

"There seems to be almost no problem that Congress cannot, by diligent efforts and careful legislative drafting, make ten times worse." -- Me

At least, not until some serious testing is done on them beyond what has been done. Especially testing that drapes clothing (heavy denim, leather jackets) over the ballistic media. Because most people don't run around nekkid when they are looking to harm folks, not unless they're rock-solid-batshit crazy.

I'm not sure if these new bullets are Bede-grade snake-oil or not.

But what I do know is this: I'm not going to be one of the ones trying them out. My opinion is that in a weapon where you need it to go "bang" to stop someone from doing harm to you or your loved ones, this is what I do:

In guns that have modern police-grade ammo available (9mm, .40, .357 SIg, .45 ACP), use what the cops use, if you can get it. Speer Gold Dot, Federal HST, Federal Hydrashok, Remington Golden Saber. Buffalo Bore makes some good stuff for both revolvers and automatics. For .38s, the FBI's last revolver load (158gr LSWCHP +P) is good. .357 magnum, 125grn JHPs are a proven fight-stopper. Other calibers with some power, .41/.44 magnum, you can find stuff that is both effective and doesn't have punishing recoil.

Smaller, I don't know. There is lots of discussion as to whether a .380 hollowpoint will function (ie, open up) or whether you're better off with FMJs. There are probably some good .32/.327 magnum loadings, but down to .32 ACP and weaker, you're probably better off with FMJs.

Most all of those (probably all) are proven. There is plenty of independent testing and a significant amount of evidence from actual use. There is none of that for these new rounds.

Look, there are lots of areas in the gunnie world where it can be fun to experiment with new stuff. That's especially true in the target and competition realms. The new tech fails and you lose a match, meh.

But when we're talking about uses where you need to stop the threat, that's not the place for most of us to experiment. I sure as hell don't want to be on the cutting edge, not when there is a lot of history about the latest whiz-bangs not working the way that they were hyped promised.

Or me? Or you, if you've been blogging about the NSA's Stasi-like* activities?

Is he threatening all of us?

(Nice NSA parody, by the way.)
___________________________________* When I say "Stasi-like", please keep in mind that the East German Stasi would have only wished to have had a thousandth of the capability of the NSA to spy on its citizens.

Reporters are supposed to ask questions that discomfit politicians. If a Republican thug like Rep. Grimm wants to talk to reporters that will not upset him, he should confine his interviews to the "news outlets" serving the Murdoch Empire.

This morning, one of the Weather Channel dudes said that he walked 4.5 miles into work because the roads were impassable. They were covered in ice.

There's this modern technology called "weather forecasting" and, compared to decades ago, the short-term forecasts are usually pretty good. In places where they have weather like this, school administrators will cancel school and not have the kids come in so that they don't get stranded at school.

How many salt/brine/sand trucks do they have in the metro Atlanta area? And if they do have any, do they have enough stuff to treat the roads? I'm betting they don't. The usual method for dealing with snowstorms that far south is "wait for it to melt." Hell, even as far north as St Louis, they do that and they have for many decades (only now that the "snowflake millenials" are of voting age is that city considering changing that policy).

If the weather is going to be beyond the local ability to cope with it, stay the fuck home, people. You wouldn't be out going to work or school in a hurricane, would you? A bad winter storm isn't a hell of a lot different (other than the strong winds and flooding).

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Or what's the deal with Florida. But then, I never know what the deal is with Florida. When John Quincy Adams denounced Florida as "a derelict open to the occupancy of every enemy, civilized or savage, of the United States, and serving no other earthly purpose than as a post of annoyance to them", he pretty much nailed it. Whatever we paid Spain for the state, we got taken. They should have paid us to take that miserable hellhole off their hands.

Friday, January 24, 2014

I've been watching the "Killer Women" series on ABC. Because mostly I like Tricia Helfer. It's already been axed by ABC; they'll run three more episodes and then the show is over.

Anyway, in the third episode, Ranger Molly Parker (Helfer) pulled her .45 and went into a house (because, you know, fuck the 4th Amendment).

First she drew her gun:

As you can see, the hammer of her 1911 was down, which, as we all should know, meant the gun is less useful than a brick. When I watched it, I groaned.

Then she reached for the doorknob with her left hand. The camera angle jumped to the doorknob and then back to her hand, where, without any magical clicks from the Foley guys:

The hammer was at full-cock on the 1911.

I didn't notice the second bit until I went online to grab the first screenshot.

Anyway, this is how it goes: The networks should pay me big bucks to watch proposed shows for them. If I like a show (like "Killer Women" or "Prime Suspect"), it's probably going to flop. If I'm ambivalent about a show ("The Blacklist") or if I don't care for it ("Once Upon a Time"), well, buy more of that show because it's going to be a hit.

That's a skosh over a 6% price hike. Which may make it worthwhile to stock up a little. You'll, in effect, be getting a discount for every letter you mail after that. And since the interest rates are almost zero at the bank, it's a better return on your money.

We have only the NSA's assurances that they are limiting their collection of cell phone data to foreigners.*

And we well know by now, from the NSA's statements since the beginning of the Snowden Releases months ago, that everything that is uttered by any NSA spokesman, official or one of their pet politicians is a lie, including the words "and", "the" and all punctuation.
_______________________________* The DEA does, something which the PCLOB seems to have ignored.

The cops arrested the driver of the other car (also for DUI), but apparently didn't arrest the drivers of the SUVs that blocked traffic so those two little turdlets could do some street racing.

This punk-ass kid is traveling down the Lohan-Houston Highway. He's going to be in and out of a courtroom and rehab and jail until, five or ten years from now, his career will be all over. Then his name won't be in the papers again (other than arrest reports) until they find him dead in an alley or a cheap motel room from a drug overdose.

Also, why is the TSA now acting like cops? Why do they give a shit about enforcing the laws? if somebody is carrying cash, who gives a shit? That's got nothing to do with "transportation security".

More and more, it seems that it's better to just drive to where you need to go. It was one thing back when it was private contractors that the airlines hired, but now that it's DasGov wannabee Federal agents, who needs this shit?

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

I have Crimson-Trace laser grips on the two revolvers that I tend to carry most often (or have reachable at night). I sighted them in by making sure that the laser and the open sights were aligned to the same spot. But I hadn't really used them. The range I use most of the time is open-air and red-dot lasers don't show up very well during bright daylight.

A few days ago, I had an occasion to shoot at an indoor range. I tried out a Model 10 with the laser grips. At 25 feet, well, damn, that thing is accurate! One flyer, but five shots were into the area of an old silver dollar. I was shooting with my elbows locked against my side, holding the gun down at waist level and only using the laser to sight it. Or "direct fire", whichever is more accurate.

The neat effect was that the laser would partially reflect from the smoke downrange, so it looked a bit like the lasers you always see in SF movies. Because in the real world, you don't normally see the beam of a laser.

Anyway, as long as one could hold it steady, hits with a laser-directed snubbie could be done far outside of normal belly-gun ranges.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

I'm more of a general-purpose blogger, I don't stick to a certain topic. But I'vebeencritical for yearsaboutthe LCS. A decade of wearing the blue suit, followed by decades of watching the Ft. Fumble Follies has led me to be very skeptical of the entire concept.

The LCS was sold as being kind of a lego-ship, where combat-mission-specific modules could be swapped in and out. Not that there was any serious funding for those modules, mind you. The LCSs have had serious construction problems (though to be fair, so have bigger ships, such as the LPD-17 class).

The whole idea of the LCS was to basically be a brown-water ship to beat up on people who don't have the capability to engage in naval warfare. The LCS can't take a punch, they don't have the crew size to fight a fire or to maintain the ships to the standards expected of a destroyer sailor. My feeling is that the LCS is a great ship if your idea is to drive everyone out of the Navy after their first tour (and to ensure that CPOs, XOs and COs of those ships all have divorces).

The LCS cannot play well with the rest of the Fleet. But neither could the PCs or the PCHs, which is why none of them lasted very long.

The Navy made a major mistake by neutering the FFG-7s and then getting rid of them, thinking that the LCS could do some of their tasks. (The Navy also made a mistake by getting rid of the 1052s without replacing them.)

I predict that however many LCSs the Navy builds, they are going to spend almost as much time in port as did a Soviet Navy DD. They'll be sold off rather quickly in about ten or fifteen years, if any other nation is foolish enough to want one. Most will be scrapped or sunk in SINKEXes.

The better choice would be to pull the plug on the program right the fuck now and stop the wastage sooner rather than later. But that's not going to happen.

Monday, January 20, 2014

The odds of me ever shooting one are very long, indeed. So you can take my reaction to this gun with the appropriate amount of NaCl.

First off, Taurus shortened the barrel to 1", which is cutting it in half over normal snubbies. .38 Special rounds aren't speed demons to start with, especially from short barrels. From a 1" barrel, you'd be lucky to break 600fps and 100ft-lbs of muzzle energy. This is pure speculation, but I'd be somewhat astonished if most hollowpoints would open up at that low velocity/energy. For the amount of "oomph" you'll get out of this thing, you might as well get a little .32 ACP.

Second, by shortening the barrel to 1", Taurus had to shorten the extractor rod. A 2" snubbie won't pop the cases out all the way, a 1" snubbie might barely move the cases. Remember, the barrel length on a revolver is measured from the face of the cylinder. The cylinder rotates around a hollow axle on the crane that swings the cylinder out. The extractor rod moves through the hollow center of the crane and pushes on a star that lifts the cases from the chambers of the cylinder.

In a revolver with a 3" barrel or longer, the extractor rod has enough travel to do its job properly- You hold the revolver barrel-up, bang the extractor rod and the cases come out. If you smack the rod on a 2" snubbie, you usually can get the cases out if your chambers aren't too dirty.

As you can see here, barely a nub of the extractor rod pokes through the crane on the View.

For reloading, the extractor will move the cases about far enough for the shooter to pry them the rest of the way out with their fingernails.

Second, the grip of the revolver is canted in such a way that the gun is only fully usable by right-handed shooters.

Third, a 9oz .38 is not going to be any joy to shoot. And with a 10lb trigger pull, hitting anything at other than stabbing range is going to be an interesting trial of marksmanship.

Fourth, guns are durable objects. I have a few weapons that date back to the Great War, or earlier, and two rifles from WW2. A plastic sideplate doesn't seem durable.

And fifth, $600 MSRP? You can get a Ruger LCR or a J-frame Smith for less than that.

Rogers is right up there with DiFi, they're both stalwart defenders of our national police state, as well as all things NSA and CIA. Neither one of them have been for any substantive reforms, at least until a groundswell of public opinion arose for reforms. So they're not exactly what one could call unbiased. If a NSA spook whispered this shit in Rogers's ear, you can bet your bippy that he'd be blabbing it to the press in a femtosecond.

More to the point of this post, you'd have to be naïve as all hell to not entertain the possibility that any so-called evidence that the Russians aided Snowden has been forged by the NSA (or the CIA or DIA). Given that those fuckers have been having wet dreams about whacking Snowden, it's completely plausible that their claims of Snowden getting Russian assistance are false and supported by false documents.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

What I'd like is a pistol that (a) isn't terribly expensive and (b) can be customized as desired. Which means that it has to have replaceable grips, for starters, and the ability to mount a rail come the day when I want to mount some sort of optic.

Which seems to come down to three choices: The Browning Buckmark, the S&W Model 22a, or the Ruger Mk. III. At the LGS, the Buckmark is the most expensive, the S&W the cheapest, though the range is under 50.

All three feel OK in my hand as is. (The Ruger .22/45 does not.)

I am leaning towards the Mk. III for the sole reason that if I really get into this type of shooting (come availability of .22 ammo), it seems that the Rugers can be modified to hell and gone. On the other hand, I'd not have to go through a FFL to replace the barrel of a Buckmark.

I was in a discussion group the other day OK, it was a book club, which is more of a "wine and food" club, because, well, you get the idea.

We got onto the topic of the American Indians and the conquering of the Western Hemisphere by Europeans. The matter of smallpox was brought up and the question was asked: "We gave them smallpox, what did they give us?"

Great, so the NSA knows where I went for lunch and who I ate with, since that was all the subject of text messages this morning.

This is the text that I'd like to send those putzim:

Dear NSA, you pack of illegitimate bastards:

I could probably go into a lengthy discourse about freedom and liberty and the Constitution and your acting as the American Stasi, but let's cut to the chase, shall we: May you all die in painful crotch fires.

Oh, nobody there can conceive of the evil fuckery that sort of technology will permit? It's not that they just can ID you from a retinal scan taken at a distance (think of the billboards in the movie Minority Report), they can take a photo of your fucking eyeballs from 40 feet away and then put that into their biometric database.

This is one of the biggest beefs that I have with engineers and scientists: They always are asking "can we do this", but they only rarely bother to as "should we be doing this". No, they just release their new technology into the wild and then they leave it up to the rest of us to deal with the effects of it.

Once this system is ready for use, I don't know what we can do to stop it from being adopted by law enforcement and corporations far and wide. Do you really want to be biometrically IDd when you walk down the street or enter a building? It is no stretch of the imagination to suggest that a database of who you are and where you were at any given time would be accessible to the cops up to the Federal level and damn near everyone else. For sure this technology will be adopted widely in the UK, since they already are pretty much a surveillance state and they don't have any niceties such as a written constitution to get in the way.

They'll have to outlaw mirrored sunglasses. And colored contacts. Colored contacts in your own eye color would probably fuck things up a bit.

I know a number of people who have kept their broadband service but have dumped their cable TV service. If it is now legal for ISPs to restrict traffic, I bet that the very first thing they will do is crack down on Netflix, and then, Hulu Plus.

Between Netflix and Hulu, you'd pay about $16 per month to have access to damn near everything that's on TV. That's opposed to the $70-$100+ you'd pay your cable provider for access to the same channels.

So while Comcast, Verizon, Charter, Time-Warner, AT&T and all of the rest might promise that they won't restrict what you can download, you can bet your next paycheck that within 30 minutes of the ruling coming down, they were working on (or dusting off) their plans to do just that.

I'm in favor of using some alternative forms of punishment on these fraudsters. I'm thinking along the lines of mounting their heads on pikes and letting the crows peck at them.
_______________________________________* A town that is comparatively wealthy.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

I can't say that I've ever landed at the wrong airport. But at least once, decades ago, at night, I got lost.* I saw an airport below me and I landed there. I told the guy at the desk that I landed to use the bathroom.

But I really landed there so that I could see the airport's name over the door of the FBO.
____________________* If my memory is right, that airplane had a single nav/com, if a Narco Omnigator could ever be called a "nav/comm". It could find the direction to a VOR station, but only if you were within about two miles of the station. The comm side had a range of about seven miles. I was both young and foolish to do a night x/c in that airplane.

If you will think back to the investigations and committees that looked into the events leading up to 9-11, you might remember this: The NSA had all of the information that they needed to crack the plot in advance. So did the FBI. The problem wasn't that they didn't have the data, the problem was that they failed to make use of it.

In the parlance of the time, both the NSA and the FBI failed to "connect the dots".

They didn't need more dots. They couldn't draw the lines between the ones that they had.

The NSA's justification for the massive spying on Americans is now "well, we might need to read your personal shit someday". It's all bullshit. And fortunately, some legislators are coming to realize that. Sen Heinrich, for one, was formerly in the House of Representatives, and he is calling "bullshit" on the pro-NSA's statists who have been claiming that everyone was fully briefed on what the NSA has been doing.

It is past time to rein in the NSA, the FBI, the DEA and, for that matter, the local po-po. And if they won't come to heel, it's time to start using the power of the Federal (and state) purse on them.

When you take Federal money for things like that, there are rules about using the lowest bidder (a point famously made by Alan Shepard after his flight in Freedom 7). Selecting the bidder who bid nearly twice as much without a damned good reason is a major no-no in the Federal contracting world.

Back when I was getting my license, there was a general-aviation airport that was ten miles from a SAC base. The runways were aligned the same way. The main runway at the SAC base was about a mile longer and twice as wide and the ramp had B-52s and KC-135s on it, but that didn't stop a couple of pilots a year from landing at it (and being greeted by Air Police with leveled M-16s).

So yes, it happens. If you expect to see an airport and there is one where you expect to see it, it'll take some good mental cross-checking to avoid screwing up like that.

But with two professional pilots and the glass cockpits of airliners these days, well, you'd kind of think that wrong airport landings might be a bit rare than they seem to be.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

I have miniblinds on my windows. It was below -10edgF here earlier this week. They didn't do squat to push back the cold. I hung two old bath sheets (cat towels) on the front windows. The back windows are single units; I had a plastic window sheeting kit left over from when I lived in the Northeast, I used that on the rear windows. (Which means I can't adjust the blinds on those windows until Spring, but I'll suffer.)

First off, it's ludicrous to even submit that the FBI submitted 21,000 NSLs in one year alone solely for "fighting terrorists". That's just bullshit. The FBI submits NSLs for every kind of investigation they do. They submit NSLs on a whim and the FBI has had its dick slapped more than once for abusing NSLs.

In case you're not familiar, an NSL is a sooper-seekrit administrative letter that the FBI sends to banks, ISPs, libraries and anyone else that they damn well feel like. An NSL requires the recipients to d\turn over all sorts of information and the recipients are barred forever from ever talking about it to anyone. No judge issues an NSL, just some functionary in an FBI field office. As far as NSLs and the FBI are concerned, the Fourth Amendment doesn't exist.

NSLs need to go away, right now, and permanently. The FBI should be required to apply for a search warrant when they want to go snoop through people's records. Just like the Framers of the Constitution intended.

A change of pace: A silent movie about the building of a steam locomotive.

First off, 3101 survives. There was some rumblings a few years back, before the Great Recession, that the Canadian Pacific was considering restoring 3101 to operating condition.

The other thing of note is to look at the men in the construction shops. No hard hats, hardly any other safety equipment, and you can bet that there wasn't a steel-toed or safety shoe to be found in the place.

It was not unusual for larger railroads to build their own steam locomotives. But it wasn't terribly common. Norfolk & Western was building them into the early `50s, because they had made the investments in their shops and because their major source of revenue was hauling coal. The Pennsy also made many of their own locomotives with one-piece cast frames. Pennsy shop workers used to brag that the only part of the locomotive that they couldn't integrally cast was the engineer.

The investigations are just gathering steam. But it should be pretty clear to even the most casual observer of Christie's time as governor that what happened at Fort Lee was clearly within the tone that he set. Christie has a well-deserved reputation for being a thin-skinned bully who will go after anyone for even the tiniest of political offenses.

The banksters and the other "white collar" criminals did far more damage to this country than Al Qaeda could ever have hoped to do. Those assholes stole trillions of dollars and they are still at it.

The DoJ and FBI prosecuted the hell out of the S&L scandal. They went after Enron. But now, they're going after loudmouth braggarts who couldn't have set off a cherry bomb without blowing off their fingers. And they're monitoring political dissidents.

The FBI is morphing back into what it was in the latter days of Hoover's reign as Director: An American Stasi.

We don't need another group of domestic spies. What we need is a Federal agency that enforces the sort of complex criminal laws that most states cannot. Cleaning up the crooks in the financial industry is a federal-level job.

But the FBI is asleep at the switch.

So if you're running some sort of really intricate swindle, like those allegedly run by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and the Bank of America, don't worry about going to jail. The worst that'll happen is that if the SEC catches you, you'll have to pay a bit of a fine and you'll be back at work the next day, scamming and stealing.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

If you're one of those who think that D-Day was the big deal of the war, then watch how much territory exchanged hands in the East. You can see the pincers movement of the Soviet Armies in late 1942 that chocked off Stalingrad. And you can see how much winter fighting the Russians did. The Germans may have wanted to go into winter quarters each year, but the Russians weren't letting them do that.

There is no shortage of stories from New Jersey that have chronicled that Christie has a skin thinner than the cell wall of a red blood corpuscle. He's got a reputation of being quick to take offense at the most trivial of slights and eager to have revenge for any perceived slights.

Christie is a modern version of Richard Nixon, both men who should instead have had careers as the stunners in a slaughterhouse.

It costs $40 to download a full copy, which is a little too rich for my blood. (Update: Thanks to a reader, I've seen a copy. I can't stress this enough: Save Your Money!)

My instinct is that CCW doesn't as much deter crime as redirect it. Crimes against people would be less attractive to criminals if there is a risk of coming down with a sudden case of bullet wounds.* Your average criminal is pretty much a lazy (and stupid) sociopath who can't or won't hold down a job. They'll turn to shoplifting and boosting parked cars, where there is a lessened chance of getting shot for their efforts.
_________________________________________* It's probably why there have been reports that home invasions and burglaries of occupied homes are far more common in the UK than they are in the US.

She ended her campaign with the usual dollop of self-serving bullshit, but that's kind of to be expected from anyone who is pulling a Palin. Don't be too surprised if she's already called the movers to come pack her shit up to head back to her home in Virginia.

I traveled over the holidays, coming back home the afternoon after Winter Storm Hercules cleared out. My return flight was a two-legger, starting at a medium-sized airport in New England.

That airport is served by Southwest and a couple of the legacy carriers. That afternoon, the legacy carriers weren't flying at all. But SWA was, doing their best to move people. Oh, they were struggling, for they had to cobble together pick-up crews from incoming flights to get flights out. At the hub, SWA held my connecting flight for my incoming flight and another one. Upshot was I got home less than two hours late, which, given the near chaos that was going on, was close enough to "on-time" to suit me.

Now, with Winter Storm Ion pounding the Midwest and heading east, it's probably a reasonable guess that if I had flown on the legacy carriers, I'd still be back in New England and likely stuck there until the middle of the week.

The other thing is that in the midst of the zoo-like conditions, everyone working for SWA kept their good humor. And as a likely result, so did almost all of the passengers.* There was none of the "slaughterhouse squeeze chute" atmosphere that I've experienced on other carriers.**

Years ago, I was skeptical of SWA, I thought they were too good to be true. But with no baggage fees, no ticket-change fees, no second-rate feeder airlines and good customer service, if it's not SWA, I'm not going unless I'm getting paid for the trip.***
_______________________________* There was one little self-important loudmouth with a Southie accent, who seemed to take it all personally. Fuck him.
** UAL and Delta in the last few years. Haven't flown AA/USAir recently, but I've been told they're worse.
*** Jet Blue doesn't fly where I need to go.

Which makes him a little different from, oh, every other witness in any sort of court proceeding or congressional hearing, who is expected to be able to answer questions to the best of their ability without being pre-briefed. Not answering a question truthfully is a bit of a crime.

It's not terribly unusual to see these trashhaulers at larger airports around the country. Capable of carrying outsized cargo (and 55 tons of it), the Il-76 doesn't need handling equipment to load or unload cargo, unlike the commercial Western jet freighters.

Crimus people, stay the fuck home or go to a private party. Being locked into an open-air prison for half-a-day, with no facilities? Idiots.

On one of the morning shows today was some kind of famous cook wearing orange crocks. The only people who can get away with wearing orange crocks in public are those who are also wearing an orange jumpsuit, leg-irons, handcuffs secured by a chain around their waist, and ar being escorted by a deputy sheriff to a court appearance.

Taylor Swift is putting up a $2-million seawall around her home at Watch Hill, RI. She didn't get any permits. The state said she didn't need one from them and her contractor didn't get one from the town. Most building departments in the northeast are staffed by zealous and officious people who get their noses severely out of joint if everything isn't just so, so it's kind of hard to imagine that Swift can build that big a seawall with no permits from anyone. A columnist from the New London Day has been running three days of columns about this and its kindofblownup. Because beaches in Rhode Island (and many other states) are not private land, so Swift can't block people from using it. Even if her rent-a-goons think otherwise.

My sense of 2013 was that unless a body was already at the top of the economic pyramid, that 2013 was a pretty sucky year. I went to a presentation a few months back where a woman representing the local banksters said that the Great Recession ended in 2009. Everybody in the audience looked at each other, because they weren't seeing any signs of things getting better for them.

Rule No. 5: Terms of Service: Political appointees of the Obama and Bush Administrations may not read this blog unless they (i) post a comment confessing same and (ii) acknowledge that both men are war criminals. This blog may not be read by members of the Arizona Legislature.

Violation of this term is a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2)(C) and you're off to share a cell with Chris Christie, asswipe.

Rule No. 6: If I wanted you to write a "guest post", I'd ask you. Don't bother asking me to put one up from you. I won't. Start yer own goddamn blog.You Have Been Warned.